yidis

Spanish

Alternative forms

• yiddish, yíddish, yídish, ídish, ídisch

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝidis/ [ˈɟ͡ʝi.ð̞is]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝidis/ [ˈɟ͡ʝi.ð̞is]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃidis/ [ˈʃi.ð̞is]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒidis/ [ˈʒi.ð̞is]

• Rhymes: -idis
• Syllabification: yi‧dis

Proper noun

yidis m

1. Yiddish (a West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe)

Further reading

• “yidis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10